Shear wave dispersion and attenuation in fine-grained synthetic olivine aggregates: Preliminary results

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1055-1058

  Tan, Ben H ^a   Jackson, Ian ^a   Fitz Gerald, John D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AGGREGATES; ANELASTIC RELAXATION; ATTENUATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELASTIC MODULI; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRAIN; TECTONICS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OLIVINE; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR WAVES; SILICATE MINERALS;

SHEAR MODULUS; TORSIONAL FORCED OSCILLATION TESTS; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

OLIVINE; DISPERSION (WAVES);

ATTENUATION; DISPERSION; OLIVINE AGGREGATE; S WAVE; SHEAR MODULUS;

FORCED OSCILLATION TEST; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; INTERPRETATION OF DATA; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; SAN CARLOS OLIVINES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ULTRASONIC EXPERIMENTS; VISCOELASTIC RELAXATION;

EID: 0031147640     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00860     Document Type: Article

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